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After Retromania

Liam Inscoe-Jones

In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the 2020s — with fellow music journalist Liam Inscoe-Jones.

A distorted, pixelated, static-y image of Arca performing on stage

(Illustration by Jay Marol using a photo by Timothy Norris / Getty Images / Coachella)

Here’s a classic early episode of The Simpsons, in which Bart bunks off school to eat ice cream and sneak into the cinema, leaving his hapless school principal to trail him around Springfield. Arriving at the town’s youth club only to find the building empty and derelict, Principal Skinner utters the immortal words: ‘Am I […]

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